transitive verb
1
: to give approval to : ratify
4
: to give new assurance of the validity of : remove doubt about by authoritative act or indisputable fact
Synonyms
Choose the Right Synonym for confirm
corroborate suggests the strengthening of what is already partly established.
witnesses corroborated his story
substantiate implies the offering of evidence that sustains the contention.
the claims have yet to be substantiated
verify implies the establishing of correspondence of actual facts or details with those proposed or guessed at.
all statements of fact in the article have been verified
authenticate implies establishing genuineness by adducing legal or official documents or expert opinion.
handwriting experts authenticated the diaries
validate implies establishing validity by authoritative affirmation or by factual proof.
validated the hypothesis by experiments
Example Sentences
The tests confirmed the doctors’ suspicions of cancer.
The attack confirmed her worst fears about the neighborhood.
The award confirmed her status as one of the great movie actresses.
The dentist’s office called to confirm your appointment for tomorrow.
We have a reservation for you for tomorrow night. Please call to confirm.
Recent Examples on the Web
People also independently confirmed the news.
—Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 9 Apr. 2023
Sources also confirmed the split to People and Page Six.
—Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2023
The palace also confirmed the use of other coronation regalia, including the Sword of State, a symbol of royal authority which has been used at several coronations and, in 1969, Charles’ Investiture as the Prince of Wales.
—Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 9 Apr. 2023
Police have not confirmed that either of the two suspects fired the shots during the party, however.
—Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 9 Apr. 2023
Several individuals were arrested in connection to the shooting but police couldn’t confirm if any of them are the shooter.
—Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 8 Apr. 2023
The Ahsoka footage also confirmed that the fan-favorite villain Thrawn will officially be making the jump from animation to live-action.
—Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2023
Coolio’s former longtime manager Jarez Posey confirmed the rapper’s cause of death to The Associated Press on Thursday.
—Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
Most recently, Dowell—who has not yet confirmed his resignation—oversaw Twitter’s product legal counsel.
—Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2023
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Anglo-French cunfermer, from Latin confirmare, from com- + firmare to make firm, from firmus firm
First Known Use
13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Time Traveler
The first known use of confirm was
in the 13th century
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con·firm
(kən-fûrm′)
tr.v. con·firmed, con·firm·ing, con·firms
1.
a. To support or establish the certainty or validity of; verify: confirm a rumor.
b. To reaffirm the establishment of (a reservation or advance arrangement).
2. To make firmer; strengthen: Working on the campaign confirmed her intention to go into politics.
3. To make valid or binding by a formal or legal act; ratify.
4. To administer the religious rite of confirmation to.
[Middle English confirmen, from Old French confermer, from Latin cōnfirmāre : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + firmāre, to strengthen (from firmus, strong; see dher- in Indo-European roots).]
con·firm′a·bil′i·ty n.
con·firm′a·ble adj.
con·firm′a·to′ry (-fûr′mə-tôr′ē) adj.
con·firm′er n.
Synonyms: confirm, corroborate, substantiate, authenticate, validate, verify
These verbs mean to establish or support the truth, accuracy, or genuineness of something. Confirm implies the establishment of certainty or conviction: The information confirmed our worst suspicions.
To corroborate something is to strengthen or uphold the evidence that supports it: The witness is expected to corroborate the plaintiff’s testimony.
To substantiate is to establish by presenting solid or reliable evidence: «What I shall say can be substantiated by the sworn testimony of witnesses» (Mark Twain).
To authenticate something is to establish its genuineness, as by expert testimony or documentary proof: Never purchase an antique before it has been authenticated.
Validate refers to establishing the validity of something, such as a theory, claim, or judgment: The divorce validated my parents’ original objection to the marriage.
Verify implies proving by comparison with an original or with established fact: The bank refused to cash the check until the signature was verified.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
confirm
(kənˈfɜːm)
vb (tr)
1. (may take a clause as object) to prove to be true or valid; corroborate; verify
2. (may take a clause as object) to assert for a second or further time, so as to make more definite: he confirmed that he would appear in court.
3. to strengthen or make more firm: his story confirmed my doubts.
4. to make valid by a formal act or agreement; ratify
5. (Ecclesiastical Terms) to administer the rite of confirmation to
[C13: from Old French confermer, from Latin confirmāre, from firmus firm1]
conˈfirmable adj
conˈfirmatory, conˈfirmative adj
conˈfirmer n
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
con•firm
(kənˈfɜrm)
v.t.
1. to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: to confirm one’s suspicions.
2. to acknowledge with definite assurance; make certain or definite: to confirm a reservation.
3. to make valid or binding by some formal or legal act; sanction; ratify.
4. to make firm or firmer; add strength to.
5. to strengthen (a person) in habit, resolution, opinion, etc.
6. to administer the rite of confirmation to.
[1250–1300; Middle English confermen < Old French confermer < Latin confirmāre to strengthen; see con-, firm1]
con•firm′a•ble, adj.
con•firm`a•bil′i•ty, n.
Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
confirm
Past participle: confirmed
Gerund: confirming
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confirm |
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I confirm |
you confirm |
he/she/it confirms |
we confirm |
you confirm |
they confirm |
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I confirmed |
you confirmed |
he/she/it confirmed |
we confirmed |
you confirmed |
they confirmed |
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I am confirming |
you are confirming |
he/she/it is confirming |
we are confirming |
you are confirming |
they are confirming |
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I have confirmed |
you have confirmed |
he/she/it has confirmed |
we have confirmed |
you have confirmed |
they have confirmed |
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I was confirming |
you were confirming |
he/she/it was confirming |
we were confirming |
you were confirming |
they were confirming |
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I had confirmed |
you had confirmed |
he/she/it had confirmed |
we had confirmed |
you had confirmed |
they had confirmed |
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I will confirm |
you will confirm |
he/she/it will confirm |
we will confirm |
you will confirm |
they will confirm |
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I will have confirmed |
you will have confirmed |
he/she/it will have confirmed |
we will have confirmed |
you will have confirmed |
they will have confirmed |
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I will be confirming |
you will be confirming |
he/she/it will be confirming |
we will be confirming |
you will be confirming |
they will be confirming |
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I have been confirming |
you have been confirming |
he/she/it has been confirming |
we have been confirming |
you have been confirming |
they have been confirming |
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I will have been confirming |
you will have been confirming |
he/she/it will have been confirming |
we will have been confirming |
you will have been confirming |
they will have been confirming |
Past Perfect Continuous |
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I had been confirming |
you had been confirming |
he/she/it had been confirming |
we had been confirming |
you had been confirming |
they had been confirming |
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I would confirm |
you would confirm |
he/she/it would confirm |
we would confirm |
you would confirm |
they would confirm |
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I would have confirmed |
you would have confirmed |
he/she/it would have confirmed |
we would have confirmed |
you would have confirmed |
they would have confirmed |
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Verb | 1. | confirm — establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; «his story confirmed my doubts»; «The evidence supports the defendant»
affirm, corroborate, substantiate, support, sustain back up, back — establish as valid or genuine; «Can you back up your claims?» vouch — give supporting evidence; «He vouched his words by his deeds» verify — confirm the truth of; «Please verify that the doors are closed»; «verify a claim» shew, show, demonstrate, prove, establish — establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; «The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound»; «The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture» document — support or supply with references; «Can you document your claims?» validate — prove valid; show or confirm the validity of something |
2. | confirm — strengthen or make more firm; «The witnesses confirmed the victim’s account»
reassert uphold, maintain — support against an opponent; «The appellate court upheld the verdict» justify, warrant — show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for; «The emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns»; «The end justifies the means» affirm — say yes to verify — attach or append a legal verification to (a pleading or petition) corroborate, validate — give evidence for reconfirm — confirm again; «You must reconfirm your flight reservations» |
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3. | confirm — make more firm; «Confirm thy soul in self-control!»
beef up, fortify, strengthen — make strong or stronger; «This exercise will strengthen your upper body»; «strengthen the relations between the two countries» |
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4. | confirm — support a person for a position; «The Senate confirmed the President’s candidate for Secretary of Defense»
approve, O.K., okay, sanction — give sanction to; «I approve of his educational policies» |
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5. | confirm — administer the rite of confirmation to; «the children were confirmed in their mother’s faith»
organized religion, religion, faith — an institution to express belief in a divine power; «he was raised in the Baptist religion»; «a member of his own faith contradicted him» covenant — enter into a covenant |
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
confirm
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
confirm
verb
1. To assure the certainty or validity of:
attest, authenticate, back (up), bear out, corroborate, evidence, justify, substantiate, testify (to), validate, verify, warrant.
2. To establish as true or genuine:
authenticate, bear out, corroborate, demonstrate, endorse, establish, evidence, prove, show, substantiate, validate, verify.
3. To make firmer in a particular conviction or habit:
The American Heritage® Roget’s Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Translations
potvrditbiřmovat
bekræftekonfirmere
vahvistaavakuuttaakonfirmoida
potvrditiučvrstitiutvrditikrizmati
bérmálkonfirmál
fermastaîfesta
確認する
확인하다
konfirmacijakonfirmacijos drabužiaikonfirmataskonfirmuotaskonfirmuoti
apliecinātapstiprinātiesvētītkonfirmēt
birmovať
potrditi
bekräftaförsäkrakonfirmera
ยืนยัน
xác nhận
Collins Spanish Dictionary — Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
confirm
[kənˈfɜːrm] vt
[+ booking, reservation] → confirmer; [+ appointment, arrangement] → confirmer
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
confirm
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
confirm
(kənˈfəːm) verb
1. to establish or make quite certain. They confirmed their hotel booking by letter.
2. to admit to full membership of certain Christian churches.
ˌconfirˈmation (kon-) nounconfirmand (-mand) noun
a person who receives religious confirmation or is a candidate for it.
conˈfirmed adjective
1. settled in a habit or way of life. a confirmed bachelor/drunkard.
2. (of a person) who has received religious confirmation.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
confirm
→ يُؤَكِّدُ عَلَى potvrdit bekræfte bestätigen επιβεβαιώνω confirmar vahvistaa confirmer potvrditi confermare 確認する 확인하다 bevestigen bekrefte potwierdzić confirmar подтверждать bekräfta ยืนยัน doğrulamak xác nhận 确认
Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- confirme (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English confirmen, confermen, from Old French confermer, from Latin confirmāre (“to make firm, strengthen, establish”), from com- (“together”) + firmare (“to make firm”), from firmus (“firm”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kənˈfɜːm/
- (General American) IPA(key): /kənˈfɝm/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)m
- Hyphenation: con‧firm
Verb[edit]
confirm (third-person singular simple present confirms, present participle confirming, simple past and past participle confirmed)
- To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.
- (transitive, Christianity) To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).
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1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 215:
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She pulled through with the boy till he was confirmed; but then she told him that she could not feed him any longer; he would have to go out and earn his own bread.
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- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 35:
- Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII, was baptized and confirmed at the age of three days.
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- To assure the accuracy of previous statements.
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2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Protheans: Data Discs Codex entry:
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Despite all the evidence confirming the existence of the Protheans, little is known about their culture and society. From time to time, dig sites will yield new clues, but after 50,000 years of decay, little of value is unearthed.
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2019 March 18, Steven Pifer, Five years after Crimea’s illegal annexation, the issue is no closer to resolution[1], The Center for International Security and Cooperation:
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The little green men were clearly professional soldiers by their bearing, carried Russian weapons, and wore Russian combat fatigues, but they had no identifying insignia. Vladimir Putin originally denied they were Russian soldiers; that April, he confirmed they were.
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2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53:
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Transport Minister Marples, meanwhile, used arrogant rhetoric and showed his personal contempt for railways when confirming in Parliament that a third of the network was to be closed even before the survey results were known.
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Synonyms[edit]
- (strengthen): See also Thesaurus:strengthen
Antonyms[edit]
- infirm
- disconfirm
- deny
- dispute
- contradict
- question
Derived terms[edit]
- confirm plus chop
- misconfirm
- reconfirm
[edit]
- confirmability
- confirmation
Translations[edit]
to strengthen
- Bulgarian: подкре́пям (bg) impf (podkrépjam), укре́пвам (bg) impf (ukrépvam), укре́пна (bg) pf (ukrépna)
- Catalan: confirmar (ca)
- Finnish: vahvistaa (fi)
- Galician: confirmar (gl)
- Gothic: 𐍄𐌿𐌻𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (tulgjan)
- Hungarian: megerősít (hu), véglegesít (hu)
- Irish: daingnigh
- Malayalam: ഉറപ്പാക്കുക (uṟappākkuka)
- Maori: whakaturuma
- Middle English: fermen, confermen
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bekrefte, stadfeste (no)
- Nynorsk: bekrefte, stadfeste
- Portuguese: firmar (pt)
- Romanian: confirma (ro)
- Russian: укрепля́ть (ru) impf (ukrepljátʹ), укрепи́ть (ru) pf (ukrepítʹ), уси́ливать (ru) impf (usílivatʹ), уси́лить (ru) pf (usílitʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: учвр́стити pf, утвр́дити pf
- Roman: učvŕstiti (sh) pf, utvŕditi (sh) pf
- Swedish: bekräfta (sv)
to confer the confirmation
- Catalan: confirmar (ca)
- Czech: biřmovat (cs) impf
- Danish: bekræfte (da)
- Dutch: bevestigen (nl)
- Finnish: konfirmoida
- Galician: confirmar (gl)
- Georgian: დადასტურება (dadasṭureba)
- German: bestätigen (de)
- Hungarian: bérmál (hu), konfirmál
- Icelandic: ferma
- Italian: cresimare (it)
- Latin: ratihabeo
- Luxembourgish: bestätegen
- Maori: whakaū
- Middle English: confermen
- Norwegian: bekrefte
- Bokmål: konfirmere
- Nynorsk: konfirmere
- Polish: bierzmować (pl) impf or pf
- Portuguese: confirmar (pt)
- Romanian: confirma (ro)
- Russian: подтвержда́ть (ru) impf (podtverždátʹ), подтверди́ть (ru) pf (podtverdítʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Roman: krȉzmati (sh)
- Spanish: confirmar (es)
- Swedish: befästa (sv), bekräfta (sv), konfirmera (sv)
- Ukrainian: підтве́рджувати impf (pidtvérdžuvaty), підтве́рдити pf (pidtvérdyty), стве́рджувати impf (stvérdžuvaty)
to assure
- Albanian: vërtetoj (sq)
- Arabic: أَكَّدَ (ar) (ʔakkada), أَثْبَتَ (ar) (ʔaṯbata)
- Armenian: հավաստիացնել (hy) (havastiacʿnel)
- Azerbaijani: təsdiqləmək (az), təsdiq etmək (az)
- Belarusian: пацвярджа́ць impf (pacvjardžácʹ), пацвердзі́ць pf (pacvjerdzícʹ)
- Bulgarian: потвържда́вам (bg) impf (potvǎrždávam), потвърдя́ pf (potvǎrdjá), утвържда́вам impf (utvǎrždávam), утвърдя́ pf (utvǎrdjá)
- Burmese: အတည်ပြု (my) (a.tanypru.)
- Catalan: confirmar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 證實/证实 (zh) (zhèngshí), 確認/确认 (zh) (quèrèn)
- Czech: potvrzovat (cs) impf, potvrdit (cs) pf
- Danish: forvisse, forsikre, bekræfte (da)
- Dutch: bevestigen (nl), beamen (nl)
- Esperanto: konfirmi (eo)
- Estonian: kinnitama, tõendama
- Finnish: vahvistaa (fi)
- French: confirmer (fr)
- Galician: confirmar (gl)
- Georgian: დადასტურება (dadasṭureba)
- German: bestätigen (de), bekräftigen (de)
- Greek: επιβεβαιώνω (el) (epivevaióno), οριστικοποιώ (el) (oristikopoió)
- Ancient: βεβαιόω (bebaióō)
- Hindi: पुष्टि करना (puṣṭi karnā)
- Hungarian: megerősít (hu)
- Icelandic: staðfesta (is)
- Ido: verigar (io)
- Italian: confermare (it)
- Japanese: 確認する (ja) (かくにんする, kakunin suru)
- Kazakh: дәлелдеу (kk) (däleldeu), растау (rastau)
- Khmer: កំជាប់ (kɑmcŏəp), បញ្ជាក់ (km) (bɑñcĕək)
- Korean: 확인하다 (ko) (hwaginhada)
- Kyrgyz: ырастоо (ky) (ırastoo)
- Lao: ຢືນຢັນ (lo) (yư̄n yan)
- Latin: confirmō
- Latvian: apstiprināt
- Lithuanian: patvirtinti (lt)
- Macedonian: потврдува impf (potvrduva), потврди pf (potvrdi)
- Malay: mengesahkan
- Malayalam: സ്ഥിരീകരിക്കുക (sthirīkarikkuka)
- Middle English: fermen, confermen
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: батлах (mn) (batlax)
- Ngazidja Comorian: uswadikisha
- Norman: confirmer
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bekfrefte, forsikre om, forsikre om
- Nynorsk: bekrefte
- Persian: تایید کردن (ta’yid kardan), تصدیق کردن (tasdiq kardan)
- Polish: potwierdzać (pl) impf, potwierdzić (pl) pf
- Portuguese: confirmar (pt)
- Romanian: a confirma (ro)
- Russian: подтвержда́ть (ru) impf (podtverždátʹ), подтверди́ть (ru) pf (podtverdítʹ); подкрепля́ть (ru) impf (podkrepljátʹ), подкрепи́ть (ru) pf (podkrepítʹ);
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: потврђи́вати impf, потвр́дити pf
- Roman: potvrđívati (sh) impf, potvŕditi (sh) pf
- Slovak: potvrdzovať impf, potvrdiť pf
- Slovene: potrjevati impf, potrditi pf
- Spanish: confirmar (es)
- Swedish: konfirmera (sv), försäkra (sv), bekräfta (sv)
- Tajik: тасдиқ кардан (tg) (tasdiq kardan)
- Thai: ยืนยัน (th) (yʉʉn-yan)
- Turkish: onaylamak (tr), tasdik etmek (tr)
- Ukrainian: підтве́рджувати impf (pidtvérdžuvaty), підтве́рдити pf (pidtvérdyty), підкріпля́ти impf (pidkripljáty), підкріпи́ти pf (pidkripýty)
- Urdu: تصدیق کرنا (tasdīq karnā)
- Uzbek: tasdiqlamoq (uz)
- Vietnamese: xác nhận (vi)
See also[edit]
- verify
- corroborate
- establish
- prove
Further reading[edit]
- confirm in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- “confirm”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- confirm at OneLook Dictionary Search
Other forms: confirmed; confirms; confirming
When you need to make sure before you leave that you have a reservation, you often call ahead to confirm, that is, to make sure that your tickets or space are set aside for you.
The firm in confirm should give you a clue as to the word’s meaning: to shore up or verify something. When you make sure something is set, or firm, you confirm it. The word comes from the Latin con- «together, altogether,» and firmāre «make firm,» so confirm originally meant roughly «to make (something) altogether firm.»
Definitions of confirm
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verb
strengthen or make more firm
“The witnesses
confirmed the victim’s account”-
synonyms:
reassert
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“Confirm thy soul in self-control!”
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verb
establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
“his story
confirmed my doubts”-
synonyms:
affirm, corroborate, substantiate, support, sustain
see moresee less-
Antonyms:
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contradict, negate
prove negative; show to be false
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types:
- show 14 types…
- hide 14 types…
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back, back up
establish as valid or genuine
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vouch
give supporting evidence
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verify
confirm the truth of
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demonstrate, establish, prove, shew, show
establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment
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document
support or supply with references
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validate
prove valid; show or confirm the validity of something
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check, check off, mark, mark off, tick, tick off
put a check mark on or near or next to
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ascertain, assure, check, control, ensure, insure, see, see to it
be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
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check
verify by consulting a source or authority
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prove oneself
show one’s ability or courage
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prove
prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof
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source
specify the origin of
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contradict, negate
prove negative; show to be false
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stultify
prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone’s incompetence
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contradict, negate
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verb
support a person for a position
“The Senate
confirmed the President’s candidate for Secretary of Defense” -
verb
administer the rite of confirmation to
“the children were
confirmed in their mother’s faith”
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What this does confirm is two things about the way some banks responded to the flood of foreclosures: ❋ Richard Barrington (2010)
The only one of those I can confirm is that he is very very smart. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The data and the trends once again confirm that venture-backed innovation remains alive and well, at least in select areas. ❋ Jr. Robert R. Ackerman (2010)
«What the numbers confirm is that there is no double dip coming,» said Steve Blitz, economist for Majestic Research. ❋ Ylan Q. Mui (2010)
The only thing that I can confirm is that it was taken in MAINE and its 400lbs ❋ Unknown (2010)
Then you went a little Harry Potter on us with what I assume but am too lazy to confirm is Latin. ❋ Unknown (2009)
What I can confirm is it does run and while it looked a bit unwieldy, Frank could be seen riding the bike around the Fairgrounds all weekend. ❋ Unknown (2010)
According to Japan Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda, «We will again confirm at the G-20″ that exchange rates should mirror the strength of economies, thought to signal a step away from an interventionist stance. ❋ Bradley Davis (2010)
They were all the lords of fairly small districts (as you can confirm from the map of Gondor in the book), none much bigger than another, except for the large fief of Belfalas and the remote and thinly populated Anfalas, ‘the Langstrand far away’; and they all seemed to be tenants in chief of the Steward himself. ❋ Superversive (2010)
Well, because my opinion, as you would have previously guessed and can now confirm, is not in line with the rest of you. ❋ Archmage (2008)
(An increasingly common response to earnest argument, as a visit to the blogosphere will confirm, is not to disagree at any length, but to jeer the arguer for getting worked up.) ❋ Unknown (2008)
«0000001 [finally] [got] [confirmed] ❋ Kyle Wrigley (2004)
Entirely too many [duh-weebs] click Confirm when they should [Cancel]. [Proofreading] is an alien concept to them. ❋ Downstrike (2004)
Are you definitely [coming] next [saturday]? «[confirmative]» ❋ Gregs World (2014)
«Mans [be off] to da club tonite. confirmed.»
«[Duffy] be the next [big thang]. confirmed.» ❋ Fred Tissue (2008)
«i [dont] [need] your confirmness» ❋ Grdtrfgaeryger (2018)
[Computer Tech]; «[Hold On] Let Me Confirmate My Account.»
Person; «Don’t You Mean [Confirm]?» ❋ DatRandomPerson (2009)
«Dude, chicks are for fags.»
«[Confirmative], [I mean really] the last time i wear those shorts i got [beat up].» ❋ Andyfellovernet (2003)
confirming that [you fucking suck]! ❋ Fuckers (2017)
~[Scoog], are you reading me?
-Copy that Clancy , I’m reading you loud and clear
~Did you see that Bard Owl at when Fueling up?
-I believe that was a [Spotted Owl]
~That’s [Confirmative] ❋ PfdfasskjPsilo (2017)
James: John yesterday night was epic
John: Confirmed
[Tunde]:Are you in Naij for Christmas
[Emeka]: Confirmed where else would I be
[Ifeoma] is a confirmed babe ❋ ThatsNice (2010)